The Elder Scrolls Thread

Here we discuss Elder Scolls games, mythos, lore, Lusty Argonian Maids, and whether or not Khajit is innocent of crime.

All glory to the Aldmeri Dominion, etc. etc. etc.

 

Morrowind's combat was a mess, the Oblivion gates were tedious garbage, Skyrim's quest system was monotonous, and Talos is a god, fuck you Thalmors.

And I love this series regardless. One of my favorite RPG series of all time. From a build-standpoint I tend to mainly use a sword & shield combo, with a slight focus to restoration spells, which the Imperials are great for. I know I'm not exactly winning any points for creativity, but hey, it gets the job done.I might go for an Orc character for the same thing but with a bigger emphasis on the race's armor bonuses (and for their glorious battle cry).

If we're actually talking my favorite race from a lore standpoint, it would be either the Nords or the Orcs from a sheer badassery standpoint.

 

I bought Skyrim remastered for the ps4 because my 360 version kept crashing. I'm too poor to get a decent computer to run the pc version. Tried my best to avoid my old stand by of the stereotypical sneak character (light armor, one handed, archery) and spiced it up a bit with conjuration and illusion. Pretty fun to fuck around with the enemy.

I actually have Morrowind on xbox and I guess it'd be my first serious rpg but I was a dumb 10 year old and had no idea what I was doing and never got very far.

 

Anyone know how Online is after the changes a while back? I have a bit of an itch for an open world game untill Zelda comes out and I don't feel like replaying skyrim again.

 

Its been a few months since I played, but Online has really stepped up their game in terms of quality. Playing in first-person or over-the-shoulder helps the game to feel more like Elder Scrolls. Armor variety is probably my biggest gripe; none of the armor sets look really bland and crafting them is just not nearly as fun as it used to be, same goes for crafting weapons. I also don't care at all for the PVP, I always preferred my Elder Scrolls experience to be single player anyway.

At least they changed their payment format to buy-to-play. Final Fantasy XIV was great, but I couldn't stand the monthly subscription.

 

I actually play ESO still annnnnd... I would say that it has gotten better in a lot of aspects, but the MMO taint (giggle) is starting to seep through. I mostly just dink around in the PVE and that is still okay (so long as you don't mind very samey missions)- lot of people gearing up for the Homestead drop later on this month (where you can buy a house or castle or an Argonian mudhut if you do so wish). They've also updated the combat somewhat so there is more options, and the upcoming Warden class is sounding interesting, what with being able to use a fucking bear as a weapon.

The downsides is that a lot of the previous skills you'd expect to be useful in the game are basically rendered moot. With the One Tamriel update, they dropped dozens of different armor sets which hold unique skills that you can't achieve even at the highest levels of clothier and blacksmithing. Also while Zenimax has been fairly diligent in maintaining the servers, when they added the dual mechanic, you would find dozens of idiots dueling in hub cities, causing MASSIVE lag and numerous crashes.

Biggest gripe for me though is the Crown store, aka, ESO's in-game fun-money gift shop. Now, none of what they sell in there isn't game breaking, but a fuckton of it is overpriced shit and there is no possible way of getting it by actually playing the game. So, sorry folks who might want to have a reindeer mount- you have to fork over $25 (I shit you not). Hey- want this cool Senche mount made out of lightning? You can only get it from the loot crates, and since it's at random, you might fork over $100 and still not get it.

But still.... Crown Store bullshit notwithstanding, it's a decent game, and MUCH better than it was a year or two ago.

 

I think my favorite character was the Imperial zweihander guy I made who used a fuck-off claymore. It was great because this fuck refuses to use magic... while being the head of the College of Winterhold. I just gave him Enchanting as his thang to rationalize it.

And shittastic dungeons? Try Daggerfall. That was an exercise in pain.

 

Morrowind is still one of my favorite games of all time. Oblivion and Skyrim are good too, never got to play Daggerfall or Arena though.

I usually play as Imperials, since I'm a sperg for Ancient Rome, although my first character was a Dunmer.

Both Imperials and Dunmer are good choices for starting players though, since both are sort of a "jack of all trades" choice, at least from my perspective.

 

From my perspective, the 3 best beginner races come down to whether you want to have a focus on melee, magic, or stealth. For those 3, I find the Imperials, Dunmer, and Khajit to be the best for beginners respectively.

 

I've found that Bretons, in Skyrim at least, tend to be a good choice as well because of how much the initial dragon fights can hurt if you're not ready for it. Also, does steam keep skyrim saves? I built a new pc over the holidays and decided against getting into online.

 

I have fond memories of Skyrim because I was determined to play it wrong from the start.

First thing I did when I got to the first town was zap Sven with lightning, and then ran away

After that I decided to just hit the first dialogue option with whoever I encountered to simulate my character not listening to anybody

The last thing I did was fight Ulfric Stormcloak, and because of a thing I did, he walked around without his head a bit before he died.

 

Lanky banana men are shit.

 

I recently got the Skyrim Remastered edition for my X1 (because when it comes to buying games, I'm a filthy whore). But anyway, starting up fresh, I decided to try and make a mage build since my last run was a pure dual wielding stealth machine. And most importantly, I was going to play it straight.

But as a new character, you know you gotta stock up, so once I made it to Whiterun, I swung by the Temple of Kynareth and pilfered some health potions. Didn't get caught, no big deal.

...few hours, and about 10 levels later...

I'm leaving the general store in Falkreath with my housecarl Lydia when we are jumped by three hired goons. As I'm still a low level character, the fight goes on for a bit and leads us out of town. Eventually I take them out... and then I realize they killed Lydia.

Checking their bodies, I find a note from Danica to kill me. Danica is the Priestess from the Temple of Kynareth. The bitch who worships one of the nine divines put a contact out for me.

From that point on, I decided to reject the path of light, and instead to follow the path of the Daedra... and by that, I mean to glitch the FUCK out of the game.

I pulled out all the stops, using the Dawnstar and Whiterun hidden chest glitches to accumulate a fortune. I used the Quicksave-Kill-Load-Buy-Repeat glitch. And of course, I employed the Fortify Restoration glitch to allow me to make me into a veritable god within Skyrim. My character can now walk up to any character in the game and do a One-Punch-Man on it.

And soon, Danica, once my quests are complete, and I get all the achievements... again... then I'm coming for yooooou....

...but yeah, glitches sure are swell.

 

I once killed a giant at level 10 by letting it chase me all the way to Whiterun, dodging its club as the guards looked on, and having it get itself stuck in the gate. Emptied my arrow count on it. Fun times.

 

Spoiler

 

Daggerfall is still my favorite. Morrowind is the only other one I played. In both of them I wound up sucking at combat, unable to have any good equipment despite breaking the economy, and needlessly harassed by law enforcement.

 

only played blibbion and norway because i'm a console peasant with a hexbawk tree sissy.

muh super original karackterz (copyright do not steal) are

- a wood elf named 'sometimes', who's really sneaky, an archer, and a klepto. he gets so sneaky he can just shove on past spriggans and necromancers and loot the locked chests. his fallout equivalent is a guy whose tag skills are lockpick, sneak, and small guns. also good at speech/barter, repair, medicine, and science. hates zombies. loves horses and 'borrowing' them. uses magic as a means to an end, but generally prefers alchemy.

- orc named 'definitely'. very proud and likes to bash. uses heavy armor and melee weapons. views magic as a toy and views zombies as playthings. fallout equivalent's skills are big guns, repair, melee. won't bother sneaking. if he wants your shit, he'll take it and claim you were rude for not offering to him in the first place.

- dark elf named 'maybe'. sneaky. relies heavily on magic. uses light armor and archery or small blades like the wood elf does. thinks zombies are marvels of modern magiscience. fallout equivalent's tag skills are energy weapons, science, medicine.

all of them are complete assholes.

oblivion's levelling is like a million hundred times better than fallout's. where you use a skill to grind it up and you automatically get perks. although fallout's perks can be pretty cool, and i don't care for skyrim's perk system at all. but i like how you can craft in skyrim.

i really wish fallout had alchemy. nv has 'survival', but it's very simple.

also i don't have fallout 4 or an xbone or ps4.

 

I like Khajiit because I'm furry trash, and I like Imperials because I can make a generic good-looking guy and pump up his merchant skill to insane levels and talk NPCs into selling me an item for less than I paid for it, selling it back to the same person for more than it cost me, back and forth until they're broke.

 

Morrowind was my first foray into the series, love it to this day even though combat is shit and the game gives you no respawning enemies outside of Dark Brotherhood members and hostile naked people and raiders on Solstheim.

Also, this video was part of my last post on the Farms before. Now I share to you all some Dagoth Ur fan fiction.

 

Judging by the poll, we are all furry trash.

I actually broke my streak as a Khajiit and started as an Argonian this time.